50 Best Memoires
- May 30, 2024
- 49 Books
- Stats
- nytimes.com
The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years - The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969.
The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years - The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969.
| #1 |  Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
| 4 |
| #2 |  The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
| 3.14 |
| #3 |  Fun home
| 4.04 |
| #4 |  The Liars' Club
| 3.6 |
| #5 |  Hitch-22
| 3 |
| #6 |  Men We Reaped: A Memoir
| 4.5 |
| #7 |  Palimpsest
| 0 |
| #8 |  Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
| 0 |
| #9 |  A Childhood | 0 |
| #10 |  Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
| 4.01 |
| #11 |  Patrimony
| 3.5 |
| #12 |  All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
| 0 |
| #13 |  Lives Other than My Own: A Memoir
| 0 |
| #14 |  A Tale of Love and Darkness
| 4.25 |
| #15 |  This Boy's Life: A Memoir
| 3.67 |
| #16 |  A Life's Work
| 5 |
| #17 |  Boyhood
| 5 |
| #18 |  Conundrum
| 3.5 |
| #19 |  Wave
| 4.4 |
| #20 |  Always Unreliable
| 0 |
| #21 |  Travels with Lizbeth
| 3 |
| #22 |  Hold Still
| 5 |
| #23 |  Country Girl Country Girl: A Memoir
| 0 |
| #24 |  Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
| 4.36 |
| #25 |  Negroland: A Memoir
| 0 |
| #26 |  Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
| 4.43 |
| #27 |  Experience
| 0 |
| #28 |  Slow Days, Fast Company
| 5 |
| #29 |  Growing Up
| 4.5 |
| #30 |  Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
| 3 |
| #31 |  The Year of Magical Thinking
| 4.07 |
| #32 |  Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
| 4.26 |
| #33 |  Personal History
| 4.25 |
| #34 |  Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
| 3.8 |
| #35 |  Autobiography of a Face
| 3.83 |
| #36 |  Dancing With Cuba
| 0 |
| #37 |  Minor Characters
| 0 |
| #38 |  The Memory Chalet
| 4 |
| #39 |  Heavy
| 4.62 |
| #40 |  Priestdaddy
| 3.91 |
| #41 |  H is for Hawk
| 3.91 |
| #42 |  The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
| 4.04 |
| #43 |  Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
| 3.84 |
| #44 |  Cockroaches
| 4.5 |
| #45 |  Life
| 3.78 |
| #46 |  A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
| 0 |
| #47 |  My Lives
| 0 |
| #48 |  Why be Happy when You Could be Normal?
| 4.82 |
| #49 |  Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
| 4.33 |